Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) revealed that the value of shares bought by non-Jordanian investors at the ASE in February 2022 was JD9.2 million, representing 7.8% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD11.4 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investments in February 2022 showed a negative value of JD2.2 million, whereas the net of non-Jordanian investments showed a negative value of JD2.4 million during the same month of 2021.
The value of shares bought by non-Jordanian investors since the beginning of the year until the end of February 2022 was JD20.4 million, representing 8.6% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD27.6 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investments showed a negative value of JD7.2 million, whereas the net of non-Jordanian investments showed a negative value of JD4.1million for the same period of 2021.
Arab investors purchases during February 2022 were JD6.5 million, or 71.2% of the overall purchases by non-Jordanians, while the value of non-Arab purchases amounted to JD2.6 million, constituting 28.8% of the overall purchases by non-Jordanians. Arab investors sales amounted to JD8.6 million, or 75.6% of non-Jordanians total sales, while the value of non-Arab sales amounted to JD2.8 million, representing 24.4% of the total sales by non-Jordanians. As a result, the net of Arab investments showed a negative value of JD2.0 million, whereas the net of non-Arab investments showed a negative value of JD0.1 million in February 2022.
Hence, non-Jordanian investors' ownership in companies listed on ASE as of end of February 2022 represented 48.3% of the total market value, of which 4.75% for government, 37.42% for institutional investors including companies, institutions and funds, 6.13% for individuals and 0.03% for other categories. Arab investors own 33.6% and non-Arab investors own14.7%. At the sectoral level, the non-Jordanian ownership in the financial sector was 52.2%, in the services sector was 21.5% and 53.7% in the industrial sector.